The recent tech transition to the new Student Information System (SISI) has created chaos for SMCC students, disrupting everything from financial aid to course registration. This has created outrage and panic among […]
SMCC Students Scramble as School Enforces Email Switch
Marine Science is Major… at SMCC
Marine Science at SMCC is one of only three 2-year community college marine science programs in the US. The program is uniquely exciting, with access to research vessels, student laboratories that aren’t […]
Retail Re-Occurrences, by Key Chabot
New Country, Same Love: Nathan Mugisha’s Journey From Rwanda To SMCC
Nathan Mugisha ran the right wing of the basketball court and Charlie Houghton dribbled up the left side. The whole crowd anticipated what would happen next, as both Houghton and Mugisha made […]
Are the schools traumatizing our students?
With the rapid approach of finals, I have noticed a phenomenon in myself and many other students here at SMCC: increased anxiety and fear about finals and the stress involved in testing. […]
Trump and Mills Go Head-To-Head
The highly publicized heated exchange between President Donald Trump and Governor Janet Mills at a White House event for the National Governors Association in February has had adverse consequences for the state […]
Nathan Mugisha profile
The Weight of Time
The Weight of Time By: Samantha Wozich Waiting.Some call it stuck.I call it comfort. Time drags me away—I refuse.I grasp at what’s left of the past,but my hands find nothing. I glare […]
SMCC Students Flooded Out of Their Rooms on USM Campus
Approximately 50 students, many of them from SMCC, were displaced from their dorm rooms on the USM Portland commons, some of them for almost a month, due to flooding from a burst […]
Retail Re-Occurences, by Key Chabot
The SMCC Beacon 